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    Designing San Francisco (häftad, eng)

    A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco

    Designing San Francisco is the untold s...

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      A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco

      Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners—those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design—to the unsung artists, activists, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s.

      Previous accounts of midcentury urban renewal have focused on the opposing terms set down by Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs—put simply, development versus preservation—and have followed New York City modelsNow Isenberg turns our attention west to colorful, pioneering, and contentious San Francisco, where unexpectedly fierce battles were waged over iconic private and public projects like Ghirardelli Square, Golden Gateway, and the Transamerica Pyramid.

      When large-scale redevelopment came to low-rise San Francisco in the 1950s, the resulting rivalries and conflicts sparked the proliferation of numerous allied arts fields and their professionals, including architectural model makers, real estate publicists, graphic designers, photographers, property managers, builders, sculptors, public-interest lawyers, alternative press writers, and preservationistsIsenberg explores how these centrally engaged arts professionals brought new ideas to city, regional, and national planning and shaped novel projects across urban, suburban, and rural borders. San Francisco’s rebuilding galvanized far-reaching critiques of the inequitable competition for scarce urban land, and propelled debates over responsible public land stewardship.

      Isenberg challenges many truisms of this renewal era—especially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design, showing how women collaborated in city building long before feminism’s impact in the 1970s.

      An evocative portrait of one of the world’s great cities, Designing San Francisco provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future.




      Format Häftad
      Omfång 440 sidor
      Språk Engelska
      Förlag Princeton University Press
      Utgivningsdatum 2024-09-24
      ISBN 9780691264547

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      • Format Häftad
      • Antal sidor 440
      • Språk Engelska
      • Utgivningsdatum 2024-09-24
      • ISBN 9780691264547
      • Förlag Princeton University Press

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      • Format Häftad
      • Antal sidor 440
      • Språk Engelska
      • Utgivningsdatum 2024-09-24
      • ISBN 9780691264547
      • Förlag Princeton University Press
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